ASSOCIATED PRESS: “With gasoline at
$4 per gallon and home heating and cooling costs soaring, it is getting
harder to sell a bill that would transform the country's energy
industries and - as critics will argue - cause energy prices to rise
even more.”
(“Economic Cost Drives Senate Climate Debate,” AP, 06/01/08)

GEORGE WILL:“Speaking of endless
troubles, ‘cap-and-trade’ comes cloaked in reassuring rhetoric about the
government merely creating a market, but government actually would
create a scarcity so that government could sell what it had made
scarce.”(“Carbon’s
Power Brokers,” The Washington Post, 06/01/08)

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: “There's no
greater social power than the power to ration. And, other than rationing
food, there is no greater instrument of social control than rationing
energy, the currency of just about everything one does and uses in an
advanced society.”
(“Carbon Chastity,” The Washington Post, 05/30/08)

INVESTOR’S
BUSINESS DAILY: “The bill
essentially limits how much gasoline and other fossil fuels Americans
can use, as Klaus puts it, ‘in the name of the planet.’ A study by
Charles River Associates puts the cost (in terms of reduced household
spending per year) of Senate Bill 2191 at $800 to $1,300 per household
by 2015, rising to $1,500 to $2,500 by 2050. Electricity prices could
jump by 36% to 65% by 2015 and 80% to 125% by 2050.”
(Editorial, “The Carbon Curtain,” Investor’s Business Daily,
05/29/08)

FORBES: “Kennedy and other skeptics
say ‘cap-and-trade’ is little more than a tax on energy. True enough:
market-based or not, the government would mandate that emitters pay for
something they essentially do for free now.”
(“Cap And Trade Comes To Congress,” Forbes, 06/02/08)